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Chapter 11 The Gatekeeper

Bai Yue turned around and carefully observed his companion's face.

"Is the little girl in the mirror your past self?"

he asked softly.

"Ah."

Lin Wannan looked at her father's ferocious face in the mirror. The girl nodded sadly: "I remember it very clearly. It was my eighth birthday that day."

"I can see that your father is not very reasonable."

Bai Yue sighed, this is obviously the fantasy world described in the story, but the mirror in the depths contains the past of this world.

"He has never loved me. To him, my mother and I are just tools he uses to get closer to the city."

The girl took a step forward, and she reached out her hand to the woman's face, as if she wanted to brush away the red mark on her mother's face, but soon Lin Wannan realized that the scene in front of her was just an illusion in the mirror.

"That day, I begged my mother for a long time, and she bought the Mr. Rabbit that I had always wanted."

Lin Wannan lowered her arms, her voice trembling: "I'm sorry for her."

The little girl in the mirror was already crying.

She rushed over to hug the doll, but was kicked to the ground by the angry man.

"If you want to be a city dweller, you have to climb up! Climb up! Climb up by any means necessary!"

The man kicked the curled up child again and again, and roared at his daughter: "I have created such precious conditions for you, why don't you understand my painstaking efforts?!"

Listening to the girl's sobs in the mirror, Lin Wannan closed her eyes in pain.

"Why...why would he do such a thing..."

The girl murmured.

"Because... people can never understand each other."

Someone whispered softly next to the girl.

Lin Wannan opened her eyes blankly, and the gentle-looking Teacher Gu behind the desk showed a gentle smile.

"Hypocritical people are accustomed to the mask of hypocrisy, and bullying has become the law of justice. How ridiculous...how sad..."

He sighed with regret: "Everyone's inner world is a lonely well. The darkness and ugliness under the water have always been the truth of the world. We can never change this."

"I... what should I do..."

"Pray, child, pray toward heaven."

Teacher Gu's smile became more and more obvious. He came to the girl, stretched out his hand, and slowly opened his palm.

The white inspiration shines with a soul-stirring light.

"Believe me, child, parents' expectations are just a burden to move forward. If you swallow them, you will get rid of the painful past."

The man leaned down and whispered softly: "I will help you create the best and brightest future. You will become an apostle of the kingdom of heaven, with a pair of wings that can break free from the shackles."

"I will be...an apostle of the Kingdom of Heaven..."

Lin Wannan subconsciously repeated the other person's words. She turned her head, and the angel statue not far away shone with a sacred light.

The girl walked towards the sculpture step by step, with deep longing in her eyes.

Suddenly, several fingers approaching quickly appeared in her sight, and with a 'dong' sound, Lin Wannan held her head and cried out in pain.

"Oh, it hurts!"

"Awake?"

Bai Yue withdrew his finger and looked helplessly at his teammates who looked aggrieved: "It seems that Teacher Gu is quite good at deceiving others."

"But I can understand."

Bai Yue walked up to the angel sculpture. He held a candle and knocked on the sculpture's face with his knuckles: "When ordinary people are most helpless and confused, liars often take advantage of the opportunity..."

However, as soon as he finished speaking, the young man heard a click, and a clear crack suddenly appeared on the angel's face.

In Bai Yue's surprised eyes, the cracks extended in all directions from where his knuckles were tapping. The boy took a step back, and the sculpture's head fell instantly, shattering to pieces on the ground.

At the same time, the handwriting on the label next to the exhibit also changed. "? ?"Touch"

——Run away!Run away!Run away! ■■■■Appeared!
The story described by the original owner was thus changed.

"What a mess..."

Bai Yue shrugged his shoulders and faced the stunned girl: "You saw it too. It fell by itself. I won't pay compensation."

Lin Wannan nodded with a strange expression.

"But don't worry, it's not a big problem. This thing will be gone once it's gone."

The young man patted the dust on his clothes: "According to my speculation, the key to our going up should be the mirror that reflects our memory."

The girl turned her gaze back to the Mirror of Pain.

Lin Wannan's family conditions are not bad. Although she lives in the lower city, she lives in a renovated apartment building.

"Let's go, the candle doesn't leave us much time."

Bai Yue smiled: "Don't worry, I will help you face the past."

"Hmm..." The girl's voice sounded like a mosquito.

Under the boy's encouraging gaze, she returned to the past. Lin Wannan stretched out her hand. In the sight of the two of them, the solid mirror rippled like water waves...

crunch--

With the sound of shoes stepping on the floor, the angry man turned around and was shocked to find two more figures next to the mirror in the living room.

The young man held a candle and looked at him with ridicule and contempt in his eyes. The girl beside him bit her lip. She looked at her wife, daughter and dirty doll without saying a word.

"Who the hell are you?!"

The man released his foot from the girl and shouted loudly: "Who let you in?!"

"Neighbors, we are neighbors, here to watch the fun." Bai Yue said with a smile.

"Stop talking nonsense! I've never seen you before!"

After a moment, the man seemed to understand something. He looked at Bai Yue's face and then at the closed door behind him. His eyes were filled with violence.

He faced the woman with a face full of fear: "Okay, okay, you bitch is still secretly raising a wild man——"

Mr. Lin's voice stopped suddenly, after all, a sandbag-sized fist had hit his face.

Turn around.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"

The man screamed, but the next moment, his collar was pulled up again, and another merciless blow hit his nose.

Mr. Lin burst into tears instantly, and the ferocity in his eyes instantly turned into fear and pain.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." He retched, spit out acidic water, and covered his purple nose with his hand, looking pitiful: "I was wrong... don't hit..."

"Actually, I quite liked the way you acted unruly just now."

Seeing that the other party surrendered so quickly, Bai Yue stopped with regret.

He turned around and found that Lin Wannan had hugged his past mother and young self.

She seemed to be whispering something, confessing something. Gradually, the little girl stopped crying, and a smile appeared on the woman's face.

The people in the memory disappeared in the next moment.

The dark color once again occupied the living room, the candlelight was dim, the orange spread, and the man at Bai Yue's feet also returned to his original appearance.

Its body was elongated and twisted, and its face became terrifying and grotesque.

The monster sat on the ground hugging its knees. The only thing that remained was its eyes. It stared at Bai Yue's face, and its slender eyes were full of deep shock and fear.

There is also a label hanging around the neck of the slender figure. Obviously, it is also one of the exhibits in this art museum.

"The Gatekeepers of Memory"

——In the dead of night, you look back on the past and find that it is ever-changing and everywhere.

(End of this chapter)